Congrats to StepStone VC's newest portfolio company, Creatio, on a successful $200 million raise! StepStone VC is excited to partner with Katherine Kostereva and the Creatio team as they continue to disrupt the traditional enterprise software landscape through its AI-powered no-code platform. The funds will be used to double down on R&D, expand their partner channel and grow their team globally. 🦄 Check out the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3RKRWnp #StepStoneVC #Creatio #NoCode #GenerativeAI Sapphire Ventures | Volition Capital | Horizon Capital
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🚀 Exciting News Today! #Creatio has just raised $200M at a $1.2B valuation, reaffirming our leadership in the low-code business developer space! This funding, led by Sapphire Ventures, will fuel our global expansion and innovation in AI-powered No-Code solutions. We’re thrilled to continue delivering unprecedented time-to-value and flexibility to our customers. Stay tuned for more updates on how we’re revolutionizing the CRM and workflow automation industry. 🌟 This capital raise is a minority investment, with our strategy, innovative product vision, proven leadership team, and unwavering commitment to customer success remaining unchanged. We will use the funds to double down on our R&D investments, empower our strong channel community, and grow the Creatio team globally. We are excited to continue building an enduring company to make a significant and long-term market impact for years to come. https://lnkd.in/eSraqvMX #Creatio #NoCode #FundingNews #AI #Innovation #unicorn #workflowautomation
Creatio Raises $200M at $1.2B Valuation
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Operating Leverage _____ Everyone loves efficiency again. Hallelujah! In B2B software and other businesses, we use efficiency metrics such as LTV to CAC, Burn Ratio, or ARR per FTE, but all efficiency metrics are fundamentally about operating leverage. Operating leverage is the degree to which a company’s revenue growth outpaces its expense growth. In other words, it’s how much more profit a company can generate from each additional dollar of revenue. In the pre-revenue or even early-revenue days of company building, operating leverage isn't a thing. In the early stages, finding product market fit and proving repeatability are the top priorities. If you can't do that, nothing else matters. But even in the early-revenue days, the best founders start to consider how to create operating leverage. For example, even at less than $1m in ARR, the best founders are thinking about how to reduce the cost of customer onboarding and support while improving the customer experience. This makes every incremental dollar of revenue more valuable. This is operating leverage. The reason high-growth software companies are highly valued (other than in bubbles like 2021), isn't solely the growth rate. It's the growth rate coupled with substantial operating leverage these companies create over a long period of time. The best founders I meet at PHX Ventures start to think about operating leverage pretty early. They can clearly articulate with some specificity how the gross margin will expand, or sales efficiency will improve overtime. Creating operating leverage is on their mind. To be clear, early-stage investors generally don't make investments with operating leverage being top of mind. But we do have to believe that the teams we back will be capable of building great and enduring companies. And great and enduring companies always have real operating leverage. _____ PS - In early 2024, I'm going to start hosting very informal meetups for software Founders / CEOs in PHX. No content, no schedule, no structure. Just company builders spending time together. DM me if you're interested. And if you haven't already, please follow PHX FWD and join our efforts to make PHX a top software city. #founders #startups #phx #arizona #b2bsaas
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"The way we need to think about SaaS growth must change" 😯 🎯 ChartMogul's Sofia Faustino is back at it with very insightful stuff, with the fresh "SaaS Retention Report". 📊 Among many, one of the key highlights for me is that their data shows "retention > new business", although this rings more true for later stage companies. The data shows that top percentile SaaS startups still deliver on growth - but that many others are struggling heavily with 'new business'. ☯ It speaks to the dilemmas every founder must grapple with: should one focus energy on sales & marketing or customer success? No easy answers are available - only difficult ones for the '(wo)man in the mirror'. Every founder/CEO should think carefully what these trends show about the market, and what kind of financing is relevant. ✅ At Capital Mills we offer both: growth equity and revenue-based financing for technology companies. Click to see the link to the report in the comments.
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Super interesting study from Sapphire Ventures at SaaStr 2023 (https://lnkd.in/gQqQJWtm). With the explosion of B2B SaaS in the last 3 - 5 years and the GTM Playbook from at least 5 - 7 years of specializing each step of the funnel (openers, closers, farmers, etc), we'd expect to see higher efficiency and growth, however, the outcome was actually the opposite, with avg quota attainment decreasing from 90% in 2021 to 60% in 2023 due to 3 main reasons: - Zero interest rate and abundance of capital deployed in the market caused a highly competitive environment, specially in the tech b2b industry - The abundance of capital led GTM leaders to plan ahead and invest in other areas of the GTM engine (leading in a drop on the % of investment in quota-carrying sellers), like technology and supporting roles like sdr's, sales engineers, csm's, revops, etc to increase seller productivity, increasing the "sales support" headcount ratio per seller (eg. 3:1 SDR/AE ratio to almost 1:1) - Ultimately, that specialization caused a difusion of responsibility and lack of accountability within the GTM teams and overcomplicated GTM motions with 30+ tools and processes, requiring more processes to manage processes This was a generalized trend in the B2B SaaS industry and it will be interesting to see how the industry will re-adapt. I believe that the industry will take a step back and go back towards - not totally - some kind of generalization within the GTM roles and simplifying it's tech stack.
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As a bootstrapped company, Cloudinary had to be very intentional about its ambitions to become a successful multi-product company. Co-founder and CTO Tal Lev-Ami shares his lessons learned and offers advice for others looking to grow their business this way for Forbes Technology Council. Read the article: https://okt.to/dHWT1Q #BusinessStrategy #ProductStrategy #NewVentures #PMF #GenAI
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When we first met the Symbe team - Martin Blinder, Xavier Wilders , and Thomas Laurbjerg, we knew they were going to build something special. Their personal dynamics, scale of ambition as second-time founders, and experience of feeling the problem they were solving was something we love backing and a common thread between Concept Ventures founders. So I am really happy to announce that we have led Symbe's $1.5m pre-seed round with friends Pact, Notion Capital, and Nodes Ventures. Symbe is solving the B2B go-to-market problem that I have experienced so many times in my career. Symbe focuses on using AI-powered Business Case Platform to automates and standardises the creation of business cases, empowering GTM teams to deliver value-selling at scale. #businesscase and #valueselling https://lnkd.in/dEqRjK2c
Symbe raises £1.2m for its AI-Powered Business Case Platform - Symbe
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Huge day for Creatio… Creatio raises $200M at at $1.2B valuation to fuel its market leading growth. The capital raise is a minority investment, with funds used to double down on investment in R&D, particularly in Copilot/AI and no-code platform capabilities, as well as empowering the strong channel community and growing the Creatio team globally. Very, very few tech companies make it to a $1B valuation. This milestone is testimant to the leadership, the rapid time to value the platform delivers, and the relentless commitment to making customers successful. #creatio, #nocode, #crm, #workflowautomation https://lnkd.in/eFXpu87g
Creatio Raises $200M at $1.2B Valuation
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